I WANT YOU TO LOOK AT THE MOON

(written only with words & phrases from quotes by the astronauts of the apollo missions

about the moon, or earth from the moon)

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realize, not even the garden

of eden is infinite. make

these impossible molecules

live for more than a moment.

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in the body, there emerges

an intense dissatisfaction:

is this it? are we so delicate?

high up, freedom associated

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with the absence of home,

the sparkling darkness

of space; in a different

world, the veiled crater

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of my neck, flushed with

sunlight. we’re too young

to understand that we’re

too young to understand.

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all of us, i mean. i touched

with one hand the ancient

mystery of the heavens,

sky-blue—and look at that!

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i’m really here! i’m really

here, quite close to you.

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